Table 3.
Common Media Types
Dan Sugalski
"E-mail with Attachments"
The Perl Journal, Summer 1999
 
text/plain Plain text
text/html An HTML document
text/enriched A rich-text document (This is not a MS RTF document)
application/octet-stream Generic binary data
application/pdf Acrobat document
application/msword A Microsoft Word document of some sort
application/x-anything All the x- subtypes are reserved for anyone to do whatever they want with
image/gif A GIF image
image/jpeg A JPEG image
video/mpeg An MPEG movie
video/quicktime A quicktime video
multipart/mixed Indicates that there's more than one part
multipart/alternative The same file multiple times, in multiple formats
multipart/digest Indicates that there's more than one part, and that each part is a mail message (usually of type message/RFC822)
message/rfc822 A normal mail message in its entirety, including headers